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Nowadays, the condiment on the market is more and more abundant, the chicken essence brand is also quite a few. Many people think that MSG is a synthetic chemical, not only without nutrition, but also harmful to eating. Chicken essence is different, is made of chicken as the main raw material, not only nutritious, but also safe. So, what's the difference between these two condiments?

Choice chicken essence or monosodium glutamate?

In real life, as the increase of fresh and seasoning, choose MSG or chicken choice, which mainly depends on the cooking object and everyone's taste requirements. If you are cooking, food flavor, object features more prominent, such as meat and fish can choose single MSG, only to increase the effect of fresh food, especially meat, inosinic acid content than ordinary food, just add a little MSG flavor single can be achieved by the effect of fresh, if adding composite seasoning may have special flavor against their food.

In acidic dishes, such as: sweet and sour vinegar, vinegar and pepper, fried vegetables, should not use msg. Because monosodium glutamate is difficult to dissolve in acidic substances, the greater the acidity, the lower the solubility, the worse the umami effect. The WHO recommends that baby food should be free of MSG; adults should not exceed 6 grams of monosodium glutamate per person per day. If you are cooking food, flavor is not obvious, such as stuffing, soups and other foods, you can consider using compound seasoning, that is, chicken essence. In addition, since chicken essence contains about 10 percent of the salt, so when cooking and soup, if you use chicken essence, the amount of salt must be reduced. Chicken essence also contains nucleotides, nucleotide metabolism is uric acid, gout patients should eat less.

First come to know MSG

MSG is a sodium salt of glutamic acid, for flavor substances, called glutamate, also known as msg. It also contains a small amount of salt, water, fat, sugar, iron, phosphorus and other substances. Monosodium glutamate is a kind of flavoring and seasoning material. It is made from wheat or soybean, which contains much protein. It is obtained by hydrolysis or starch as raw material. It is a powder or crystalline condiment processed by fermentation.

Monosodium glutamate soluble in water, with moisture absorption, taste is very delicious, soluble in 3000 times the water still has umami, the best solution temperature is 70 degrees -90 DEG C. MSG in the general cooking processing condition is stable, but a long time at high temperature, variable coke sodium glutamate, no flavor and slightly toxic; in alkaline or acidic solution, precipitation or dissolved, its flavor is not obvious or even disappear.

Chicken essence contains 40% MSG

Most of the chicken's packaging is painted with a fat chicken, or it is written "made from the best fat chicken" and "really good chicken."". In fact, it is not as we imagine, is mainly made from chicken, chicken bone or concentrated extracts of natural spices, its main ingredient is MSG (monosodium glutamate) and salt. Among them, monosodium glutamate accounted for about 40% of the total component, salt accounted for more than 10%. In addition, there are sugar, chicken or chicken bone meal, spices, inosine acid, guanosine, chicken flavor, starch and other substances from the composite. The taste of chicken essence is very fresh, mainly in the role of msg. In addition, inosinic acid and guanylic acid are umami, also has the effect of seasoning, and they and the combination of sodium glutamate, allowing the freshness of chicken softer, more mellow taste, plump, and more full-bodied flavor.

Many people do not dare to eat MSG, mainly worried that it will produce certain carcinogenic substances. But in fact, in the general case, MSG is completely safe, safe to eat, but it should not be heated to 120 DEG C, such as fried fish, fried meat before MSG pickled taste, otherwise the loss will become glutamate sodium pyroglutamate, produce carcinogenic substances, but under normal circumstances cooking the temperature will not exceed 120 DEG C. The chicken also contains some monosodium glutamate, MSG and so it should be paid attention to, not a long time high temperature heating. Not only that, the chicken essence contained in the hydrolysis of vegetable protein, hydrolysis of animal protein is also not high temperature, so chicken should also stir fry wok before adding, do not put too early.